2005-11-13 16:30:44
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Amazon Mechanical Turk

Por quê usar uma máquina se um ser humano pode fazer o trabalho com muito mais qualidade e gastando menos recursos? Mais do que criar uma interface para que suas questões complexas sejam respondidas por pessoas reais a Amazon já disponibilizou APIs para permitir que suas aplicações façam as perguntas. Wow.
2005-11-03 20:10:36
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...E porque o Yahoo Maps! não vai dar certo

Robert Scoble, um funcionário da Microsoft, explica porque não dá mais pra competir com o Google. Uma dica: tem a ver com anúncios, conteúdo gerado por usuários e com direitos autorais.
2005-10-26 05:26:50
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Apple fecha negócio da China

Um contrato com a maior distribuidora de música chinesa traz para a iTunes music store uma coleção que tem faixas das 20 maiores gravadoras daquele país. Próxima etapa? Vídeos de Kung-Fu, claro. E Jackie Chan.
2005-10-11 16:35:36
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For Apple, Halo effect eclipses Osborne effect | Channel Register

The fourth quarter of 2005 saw revenue of $3.68bn and a net profit of $430m, up from $2.35bn and $106m a year ago, and The year brought home $13.93bn and a net profit of $1.33bn.
2005-10-05 23:08:40
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Business Process Redesign: An Overview (Article)

Business Process Redesign is "the analysis and design of workflows and processes within and between organizations" (Davenport & Short 1990). Teng et al. (1994) define BPR as "the critical analysis and radical redesign of existing business processes to achieve breakthrough improvements in performance measures."
2005-07-14 04:16:10
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Apple profits, revenue up again | The Register

Apple's CFO was keener to point to data that suggests the "Halo Effect" - of iPod-owning Windows-users snapping up a Mac - was now real. Mac units were growing at three times the market clip, Peter Oppenheimer pointed out several times, for the third quarter in succession.
2005-07-14 04:11:00
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Sony takes bite out of Apple in Japan | Reuters.com

While Apple remains the top seller of hard drive players in Japan, there has been a decisive momentum swing in the Japanese market, with Sony securing the top position for memory-type players in both May and June, knocking Apple and its iPod shuffle device into second place.